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...Fedor von Bock's cosmos, the Fatherland remained constantly deathworthy; the Emperor was interchangeable with, successively, Weimar Republicanism, Hindenburg, the Führer. He was completely unpolitical: he never plotted, was never purged...
...always satisfied his superiors, often was the butt of his contemporaries. They used to goad him at mess by suggesting that an enemy bullet was not something to be grateful for. This would enrage Bock and he would make his usual harangue, until his fellows all said together: "Ah, the holy fire of Küstrin...
...Fedor von Bock worked his way up, he won more & more respect-both for his fanaticism and for his thoroughness. Soon his fanaticism spread in the Army, until every unit had a handful of "Bock's own dying heroes...
Holy Fire of Küstrin. Fedor von Bock looks like a man dying of some mysterious internal combustion. He is gaunt, and his eyes have the baleful stare of windows in a bombed-out house. He is a competent general-in Russia he has been Germany's best-and besides, he believes, with aggressive religiousness, in dying if necessary for the soil and honor of Prussia...
...willingness to die have won more than one battle. But when these qualities develop into indifference to losses-as they did on the Western Front in World War I and as they did in Napoleon's later campaigns-they can easily lose wars. Before Moscow Bock is expending men and materiel whose strength Germany will never be able to call on again. It is just possible that when the military history of World War II is written and a list is made of the generals who have done most to whittle down Germany's chances of victory...